Well, it looks like our dear old friend fiend Vox Day won’t be able to make his racist superhero flick after all. Because he’s apparently lost all the money he raised for it — a cool million bucks — to a cryptocurrency con artist who was supposed to be safeguarding the funds, the Daily Beast reports.
In 2019, the racist, woman-hating blogger, fantasy author, and huge asshole began raising money for the proposed film, Rebel’s Run, featuring what the Beast calls “a Confederacy-themed superhero … fighting a global police force hunting down freethinking conservatives.”
But he couldn’t put the money in a traditional bank because, apparently, no legit financial institutions wanted anything to do with his racist ass. So he parked the cash with something called Ohana Capital Financial, which described itself in promo materials as a bank for “the unbankable.” This ersatz “bank” was run by one James Wolfgramm, who (allegedly) ended up turning it into his own personal piggy bank.
As the Beast explains, Wolfgramm was not the “self-described cryptocurrency billionaire” he made himself out to be. While he
posted pictures of sports cars that supposedly belonged to him on social media … a federal indictment filed last month [alleges that], Wolfgramm’s wealth was a sham. The sports car pictures, for example, were pulled from other websites. Wolfgramm’s business also sold what were billed as high-tech cryptocurrency mining rigs—but those too were a hoax, according to prosecutors, with their screens just running on a loop to create the illusion of mines.
Wow. He’s the world’s only environmentalist crypto dude.
In any case, the feds allege, the heavily indebted Wolfgramm ultimately just took Beale’s fan’s money to use for his own purposes, leaving would-be film producer Day and his self-described “minions” up the proverbial creek. For what it’s worth, Wolfgramm himself isn’t likely to fare much better, as he now faces four counts of wire fraud for allegedly pocketing the funds and doing other bad money stuff.
“I wouldn’t count on us getting the money back,” Day explained in a video for his “minions,” going on to suggest that the whole thing could have been “a targeted operation intended to break our community.”
But it looks like this “plot” was simply a case of an unethical crypto dude stealing rather a lot of money. Who could have expected someone running a “bank” designed for the worst people in the world to do something like that, except maybe everybody.
NOTE: If you’re unfamiliar with Day and his shenanigans, by all means check out this blog’s Vox Day archives and start scrolling your way downwards. I used to write about him all the time. And you’ll get to see lots of silly graphics with Day’s head pasted on tiny people and other stuff.
Follow me on Mastodon.
Send tips to dfutrelle at gmail dot com.
We Hunted the Mammoth relies on support from you, its readers, to survive. So please donate here if you can, or at David-Futrelle-1 on Venmo.
@GSS ex-noob:
I haven’t actually read all of it to make that decision, but people whose judgment I trust back when the voting happened say that was the case. And, again, damning with faint praise. Fiction that is fundamentally ideological in nature is always going to have more of an uphill climb to be good fiction, especially when part of the ideology is that some subclass of people aren’t really people. It becomes really difficult to write a good story when part of your guiding principle is that there’s no need for some of the characters to have any sort of actual sapience.
Bluntly, narcissists can’t write good stories because they don’t ever really conceive of other people having actual lives.
Yes, but the difference there is in the ‘gay’ aspect, particularly if the true manly (white) man is the one on the receiving end. It’s a dominance display as far as they’re concerned, after all, and anything that puts the ‘real’ man on the supposedly ‘feminine’ side is automatically an abomination.
@Jenora: Chuck’s story said that all people are people, even if one of them is a sentient dinosaur from another world.
He was going to make a superhero movie with a million bucks? Was it all going to be filmed in his basement?
@rabid rabbit, @Snowberry:
I think Day and his ilk believe that The Left is one big brainwashed monolith who all agree with each other—yeah, he’s clearly never hung out in any left-leaning circles—and also that they dominate society (at least in the movie scenario they do) and therefore conservatives are all by default Free Thinkers.
If there was every karma. Gamergate and the Sad Puppies were such a trial run of the horrible stuff happening on social media now. Glad to see him get played.
@milotha: That was the thesis of the “Debarkle” book I mentioned earlier.
It is exhaustively (no exaggeration) footnoted, mostly in the racist, misogynist, homophobic fascists’ own words.